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In 2003, the city of Duluth erected a memorial to the lynched men. [2] In 2020, Max Mason, who was a co-worker in the same traveling circus as the three men who were lynched, was convicted in court after the lynchings, was granted the first posthumous pardon in the history of the state. [3]
James Allen (born June 16, 1954) [1] is an American antique collector, known in particular for his collection of 145 photographs of lynchings in America, published in 2000 with Congressman John Lewis as Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.
He was tied to an iron stake, covered with tar, and set afire. The family of the victim shot him as he was burning [333] According to the New York Sun report, "The Rucker lynching was the most spectacular in the history of Mississippi and there was no attempt at concealment or evasion." [334] [332] Green, Joe: 16: African American: Heath ...
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A colorized postcard of the lynching of Virgil Jones, Robert Jones, Thomas Jones, and Joseph Riley on July 31, 1908, in Russellville, Kentucky. A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed, collected, or kept as a souvenir.
Kinkkonen was buried in an unmarked grave in the indigent section of Park Hill Cemetery in Duluth, a few rows from where the victims of the 1920 Duluth lynchings would later be buried. [20] In 1993, the Finnish-American cultural society, Työmies, placed a marker on Kinkkonen's grave. It reads: Olli Kinkkonen. 1881–1918. Victim of Warmongers ...
Cutler, James E., Lynch-Law: An Investigation Into the History of Lynching in the United States (New York, 1905) Dray, Philip, At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, New York: Random House, 2002. Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. 119–23.
A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Minnesota" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.